 She came forward, all in black, with a pale head, floating towards me in the dusk. She was in mourning. It was more than a year since his death, more than a year since the news came; she seemed as though she would remember and mourn forever. She took...  Youth and Two Other Stories - Pagina 156di Joseph Conrad - 1924 - 339 pagineVisualizzazione completa - Informazioni su questo libro
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...of fires, within the patient woods, those broken phrases came back to me, were heard again in their ominous and terrifying simplicity. I remembered his...ever. She took both my hands in hers and murmured,'! had heard you were coming.' I noticed she was not very young — I mean not girlish. She had a mature... | |
 | Nicolas Tredell - 1999 - 198 pagine
...the story: a savage counterpart to the refined, European woman who will step forth to end the story: She came forward, all in black, with a pale head,...floating towards me in the dusk. She was in mourning . . . She took both my hands in hers and murmured, 'I had heard you were coming.' . . . She had a mature... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - 2006 - 222 pagine
...whiteness. A grand piano stood massively in a corner, with dark gleams on the flat surfaces like a somber and polished sarcophagus. A high door opened - closed....in hers and murmured, 'I had heard you were coming. 1 I noticed she was not very young - I mean not girlish. She had a mature capacity for fidelity, for... | |
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